Since the Bengals last playoff win...

[BengalD]

(04-26-2017, 01:46 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: In Marv's 7 playoff games...

- We've never seen our offense post more than 17 points 
- Our best passer rating by any of the 4 QBs was 68.3, which is awful
- We've allowed 375.4 yards per game, which would've been tied for 27th in total defense with the Saints last year
- Opposing passers have a 102.4 rating overall which would've ranked 31st in the league last year
- We've allowed 162.6 yards rushing per game, which would've ranked 31st in the league last year
- We've been outscored 96 to 29 in the 2nd half.
- We've allowed 25.1 points per game, which would've been tied for 26th in the league last year
- We've scored an average of 12.9 points per game, which would've been dead last in the league last year, more than a full point behind the Rams

You use injuries as excuses for the Steelers and Colts games, but ignore the fact that the Colts were down to Dan Herron and Zurlon Tipton at RB (those 2 burned us for 187 yards combined) and the Steelers were down also down to 3rd and 4th string RBs (Todman and Toussaint, who burned us for 183 yards) and were also without Ben for a stretch. 

We aren't the only team dealing with injuries come playoff time, and considering how horribly the team has performed, I doubt having more players healthy would've made much difference. 

The first factoid is an eye opener - 17 points? That's all?

Now it's touched a nerve - I guess the thing that bums me out the most is the teams that have won superbowls since the Bengals last playoff win.  Teams that were perennial cellar dwellers - seahacks, aints, lambs and succs  Teams that weren't even around - raisins (x2).

This team was the brainchild of the godfather of modern football and the forward pass- Freakin' Paul Brown. And in one of the most prolific states in the country for football (before the rest of them started figuring it out).  When I was 8 and playing pee wee football in Mt. Washington it was the inaugural season for the Bengals - and by 81 when they went to the superbowl I certainly thought the team was on it's way to being every bit as good and winning championships like the damn squeelers.  So here we are 36 years later, nothing notta' one.  Damn - it feels like it would have felt if the Russians walked on the moon first and we never went.  Or if the Brits had won the American revolution and we were bitching about soccer and the world cup!  C'mon - whoever is holding and exercising the magic whammy stick please aim it over to PBS pronto so we can at least for once feel like the Natti' is every bit  as good as the rest of those scrubs!  Halleluiah, holy shit, where's the Tylenol? (Thank You Mr. Griswold)